{"id":6160,"date":"2026-07-14T21:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:13:47","slug":"how-selena-gomez-benny-blanco-decided-to-go-public-with-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=6160","title":{"rendered":"How Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco Decided to Go Public With Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->You Might Have Missed Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco&#8217;s Date Night at Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Wedding<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/selena_gomez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Selena Gomez<\/a> <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">wanted to make sure she was good for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/benny_blanco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Benny Blanco<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Three years after the \u201cGood for You\u201d singer and the record producer started dating, he shared insight <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">into a conversation they had right be<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">fore she revealed the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">ir relationship in December 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cWe kept our relationship private for a long time, about eight or nine months,\u201d Blanco said in an interview translated from <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/icon\/2026-07-13\/benny-blanco-soy-el-ejemplo-de-que-puedes-lograr-lo-que-quieras-no-tenia-contactos-ni-millones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Spanish with<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/icon\/2026-07-13\/benny-blanco-soy-el-ejemplo-de-que-puedes-lograr-lo-que-quieras-no-tenia-contactos-ni-millones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> El Pais<\/span><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/icon\/2026-07-13\/benny-blanco-soy-el-ejemplo-de-que-puedes-lograr-lo-que-quieras-no-tenia-contactos-ni-millones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"> published July 13<\/a>. \u201cAnd she asked me, \u2018Are you sure you want to do this? I understand if you want us to just be friends.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">But Blanco (real name<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> <\/span><strong>Benjamin Levin<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">) was ready to tell the world he loved Gomez like a love song, baby.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI said, \u2018You know what? Screw it,\u2019\u201d the 38-year-old recalled. \u201cWe\u2019re lucky because we both have friends and family we\u2019ve known since before all this, and we\u2019re surrounded by a good group of people we love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Indeed, despite being married to one of the most famous people in the world, Blanco has learned to strike a delicate balance on what he shares.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Might Have Missed Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco&#8217;s Date Night at Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Wedding Selena Gomez wanted to make sure she was good for Benny Blanco.\u00a0 Three years after the \u201cGood for You\u201d singer and the record producer started dating, he shared insight into a conversation they had right before she revealed their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2024630\/rs_1200x1200-240730154848-selena-gomez-benny-blanco.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}